An Act for the Establishment of Washington College
An act for the establishment of Washington College in honor to the illustrious President of the United States at Salem in Washington county.
Whereas the Legislature of North Carolina, established...

Composite map showing stations and settlements of East Tennessee, the North Carolina Military Reservation of 1783, the Congressional Reservation of 1808, the Western Purchase of 1818. The map's chief purpose was to indicate locations of the native...

This map was contained in Cary's New Universal Atlas (London, 1808). Also note the spelling of Tennessee in this map (Tenassee) and the spelling of Fort Loudoun (Lowdon). Map shows many Indian towns and villages of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw...

A map of the Tennessee (note the spelling of Tennassee) government, formerly part of North Carolina taken chiefly from surveys by Genel. D[aniel] Smith and others for the American Edition of Guthrie's Geographical. This map accompanied a published...

From approximately 1800, a French map titled "Carte de la Partie Meridionale des Etats-Unis" (Map of the Southern Part of the United States). Shows state boundaries, roads, towns, Indian villages, iron furnaces, salt licks, mountains, and rivers of...

Painted portrait of John Sevier (1745-1815) by Washington B. Cooper. The painting is a copy of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the same. Print is cropped and does not show lower portion of portrait, including subject's right hand.

Circular to members of the General Assembly.
Knoxville 4th July 1796.
Sir
I have received information from the Honorable Messrs. Blount and Cocke; That Tennessee is by and act of Congress admitted as a member State of the Union.
By this act we...